The hybrid IT environment is a heavily talked about subject as businesses adapt to this modern way of working. Kevin Brown, SVP, EcoStruxure Solutions, Secure Power Division, Schneider Electric, discusses how it helps its customers to successfully build a scalable resiliency strategy and get ahead of potential sustainability challenges. What are some of the challenges […]

Digital Realty, the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Brookfield Infrastructure L.P. (‘Brookfield Infrastructure’) have announced an agreement to establish a 50/50 joint venture focused on the development, ownership and operation of institutional quality data centres in India. The joint venture will operate under the brand name […]

Recent record temperatures in the Nordics have re-emphasised the need for greater control of conditions in data centres’ indirect free cooling processes if facilities are to avoid corrosion issues, says a leading equipment provider. Figures from Finland’s meteorological institute published recently demonstrated record temperatures of over 30 degrees in June, with several Swedish regions also […]

Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, has announced it has broken ground on two greenfield campuses in Berlin and Warsaw. The development of these sites is part of the company’s US$2 billion European expansion and will provide hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises with best-in-class hyperscale data centre campuses […]

Batelco has announced the attainment of the payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS) 3.2.1’ compliance, which is the latest international certification in data security, for its three data centres. Batelco’s PCI compliance was audited against the PCI data security standards by ValueMentor, a leading provider of risk and compliance services. PCI DSS is […]

In this edition of our Deep Dive series, Charles Liang, CEO of Supermicro talks about starting out in the industry, his style of management philosophy and the current hot talking point within the data centre space. What would you describe as your most memorable achievement in the data centre industry?  One of the most recent […]

Ascendas Property Fund Trustee, the Trustee-Manger of Ascendas India Trust (a-iTrust) is pleased to announce that it will invest an estimated INR 12 billion (US$216.6 million) to develop and operate phase one of its first data centre campus on a prime site in India. It will be one of the largest data centre campuses in […]

Edge Computing is a way of storing data closer to the source and is ultimately creating efficiencies for business leaders by improving response times and saving bandwidth. James Petter, International VP, Pure Storage, discusses the importance of Edge Computing and the positive impact its having on technology development. Edge Computing has been around for a […]

MÉTISS a 3,200 kilometre subsea fibre optic cable system connecting South Africa to the Indian Ocean islands of Madagascar, Reunion and Mauritius has boosted regional interconnection. The availability of a new cable servicing the Indian Ocean Islands region widens the addressable market for content and cloud providers in South Africa and adds new resilience to […]

Gemma Reeves, Business Unit Manager specialising in Data Centers for EMEA at Alfa Laval UK, discusses the need for more efficient heat transfer within data centre cooling systems, and how heat exchangers can act as an enabler of green IT. According to data centre specialists, it has been said that the world’s 9 million data […]